Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2012

Chinese to be deported after Eating rare tortoise



  Chinese are known to haves some stomach for exotic foods raning from snakes,crocodiles,lizards, dog brains,seahorse,live monkey brains,live rat embryos, and star fish to name a few. Most of them eat these exotic foods based on their cultural belief that it these foods give some kind of special vitamins to boosten up their body repertoire.

   Four Chinese Nationals are facing deporation from Zimbabwe after they were arrested for killing more than 40 rare tortoise for meat which can was found in  South-Eastern Zimbabwe.  Villagers of Bikita stated that the reptiles ( rare tortoises ) were dropped alive into the boiling water on their restaurant. 40 Pieces of skeletal remain from An endangered Bell's Hinged Tortoises  were also found upon an inspection to the men's shelter.




Here are some of the Exotic  Chinese cuisine







Saturday, February 18, 2012

ESPN racist headliner against Jeremy Lin



    The photo above was an actual ESPN headliner last Friday where Jeremy Lin had a career high 9 turnovers with a loss against the New Orleans Hornets and broke the New York Knicks winning streak to 7. 

    The column was written by Jason Whitlock with a title of "Chink In the Armor" were the word chink refers to the Asian which was seen by many as an Ethnic slur.  

    ESPN issued a statement regarding the racial title and express their dissatisfaction about the issue.  "The headline was removed [35 minutes after it appeared]. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake."

    Though Jeremy Lin was not really concerned about the issue But some of the Asian society and Jeremy Lin supporters had caused a flurry of hate comments from different Social Networking sites to show their sentiments about the topic. 

    I as a blogger, one of the most crucial part of writing is the Title or should i say the Caption. I respect ESPN whole through out their career as they are well known and respected per Sports News is concerned. But throwing a racial slur on their headlines is somewhat a pathetic move specially to a Rising Star who actually represents a great percentage of Humanity.